Shlomo Wakshlomo Waks and his family were routed from their home in Krasnik (Poland) by SS troops and taken to the local railroad station for deportation to Belzec, a newly...

James Andrew Miller and Tom ShalesIn the exclusive behind the scenes look, sports fans can unlock the fascinating history of the channel that changed the way people watch and interact...

Mitchell Bard, PhDDescribes the historical background of the region, looks at its wars and terrorist attacks, and recounts the intervention of Western nations.

Susie Hodge Explore Greek art across the ages. Learn what techniques were used to decorate Greek pottery and how ancient Greek painters mixed their paint. This book is packed full...

John HerseyOn August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day....

Benjamin NetanyahuFighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International TerroristsIn this innovative and concise work, Israeli politician Benjamin Netanyahu offers a compelling approach to understanding and fighting the increase...

Neil MacGregor Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them. Encompassing...

Amanda ForemanThe winner of Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize and a bestseller there for months, this wonderfully readable biography offers a rich, rollicking picture of late-eighteenth-century British aristocracy and the intimate...

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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World Lucette Lagnado “Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an...

Jane Ziegelman “Social history is, most elementally, food history. Jane Ziegelman had the great idea to zero in on one Lower East Side tenement building, and through it she has...

Sylvie Courtine-Denamy Three women, all philosophers, all of Jewish descent, provide a human face for a decade of crisis in this powerful and moving book. The dark years when the...